10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4 NEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME , r . . Founded 1831 fL'blistied evenings except dunday by THIS TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Ilalldlng, Federal Sqaarc B. J. STACKPOLB Freeident ami EditorJe+CMef F. R. uiblEK, Buameea Manager BUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R, MICHENER. Circulation Manager Executive Board I. P. McCULLOUQH, BOYD M. OGICLSBY. OUB M ember of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American !i ii® aßt '" k fflc & gfjU Bulldln^. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. • ■riftwaiifr By carrier, ten cents • trfjjßgaSjgito week; by mall. IJ. 00 a year In advance. Hight brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. —Bailey. nfllßSJllY, JANUARY 16, 191 THAT PRESIDENTIAL TRIP SO" President Wilson contemplates a trip about the country after - his reteurn to . "tell the facts about the peace conference." But why wait? The people of the United states are accustomed to learn the facts of any great conclave ns they develop through the columns of the daily newspapers. What is so fcxtiJacjyiJijiafy about the peace con- I>refoe that-sojiio.of the facts must ho vyithheld? Uis be noted that the President lias appointed his own official press o&Wrft; to give out the news concern ing the peace conclave. Why is this necessary? Are not the trained newspapermen in Paris able to col lect their own facts, or is the peace conference to discuss subjects that are to be kept from the public? Secret diplomacy Was responsible for the world war and It should have no place at Paris at this time. If the President still believes in that "pitiless publicity" of which he used to boast, the newspapers will savo him from the necessity of making a fatiguing Journey about the country by printing the news while it is still fresh.' * 1 / MAYOR'S MESSAGE MAYOR Kelster'S review of mu nicipal activities for the last year was somewhat in the na ture of an accounting of official stewardship and it was of more than usual Interest from that standpoint. Sbmo of his recommendations should hive immediate consideration, espe cially thdse having to do with park ing problems and the erection of a building for the Joint use of the city and county. With respect to regulation for the parking of automobiles and other ve hicles in the congested section of the city there is no room for discussion. Something must be done and with out further delay. We have had mu nicipal survoys and export advice on this question and the time has come when there should be action with a view to relieving Intolerable condi tions on certain important streets. Most people Will agree that the> hedg ing of Market street and the main stopping, district with empty auto moblTfeS 'during the afternoon and evening while their owners and occu pants' are spending the passing hours in moving picture shows or elsewhere is Inexcusable and provincial to the/ last degree. Jn a modern city like Hayrisburg this sort of thing ought not .be tolerated a day longer than necessary to, make other traffic rules and regulations. It Is not an easy problem, of course, and will require serious con sideration of certain elements in the situation, hut there ought to be and bfi l Some solution either in farcing cars that are out of use for hpurg at a time into garages or upon streets that are not In constant use. As to the Joint city and county building there is no difference of opinion. There is general approval of that, proposition and the Board of <s6unty Commissioners are in har mony with the business-like attitude ptthe City Council. ?Mayor' Keistor will also have the rtaanlmous assent of tho public to his recommendations that the Don qto statuary should be placed without ■/brther palaver. This fine group was ,presented to the city by a generous "fcitlsen of. the county and ought to fcave been, set up long ago. It is not creditable to the good sense or ttye afttstio atmosphere of Harris biitg. fhat It has so long remained in tjjrti ig((.rehouse. An Sven more important reeom .Mayor is the urg ing of <hs>mployment of an export v-sdiperlntendent. This was jagreed. upon during the iW, # worry and 16ss fojjowlng th * pumning.ata- THURSDAY EVENING. tion a year ago, but for iomi reason tha plan of obtaining an axpart head for the Water Department wai post poned. It la not reaaonable to ex pect one without technical knowl edge to properly aafeguard this Im portant publlo utility. If the pump ing facilities and the Alter plant are again In Arat clarih working tft-der there la additional reason for pro viding one with technical ability to supervise their operation and keep them so. Another thing which the Mayor recommends and which will make him more friends than any other of his official suggestions, is the propo sition to provide bathing facilities on our water front. This has been a popular demand for several years and now that the war is over there Is no occasion for further procras tinating In what Is not only a provi sion for the pleasure of the people, but also a wholesome provision for their health and comfort. Let us hope proper bath houses —either sta tionary or Aoating—will be provided for the bathing season of 1919 and now is the time to make a real start in that direction. Commissioner Gross erred greatly when he permit ted that item be stricken from the budget for the coming twelve months. As business men and alt others gather up the loose ends at the be ginning of the year so should our city officials do likewise. Mayor Kelster's comments and suggestions indicate that the city administration is giving thought to these matters which concern the public welfare. PROUD TO RIDE 'EM THE editor of the Sharon Tele graph is disturbed. Writing of next Tuesday's inaugural cere monies in this city he says: Some Harrisburg citizens are worried because they're supposed In thZ aV "l hats and rlde horses ti l!i • "."i 0 "' 1 parade. Why not let em ride their hobbies? Good idea, neighbor! Harrisburg's hobbies aro hospitality, public spirit, civic enterprise and patriotism, and we're proud to bo seen riding 'em. Many admirable things have been done by the City Planning Commis sion but nothing will appeal more to the people generally than the con structive plan which has been out lined for the conversion of the swampy land Immediately north of Division street into a beautiful resi donee section and a Ane city park with a lake as the central feature. A BIG PROBLEM PROPER recognition of the grav ity of the housing situation In Harrisburg is given by Presi dent Reinoehl in the selection of an able and experienced committee of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce to give the subject study and consideration during the coming hT', . Mr " Relnoeh > h" tfone for Harrisburg precisely what the Johnstown Tribune is urging for Ire J Wh ° re hoUBIn S conditions siys a " bad th6y are here " Hajs that newspaper in, a leading edltoriai discussing the problem with which the city is confronted* i°.he tSi:°Va' h * Bub^ tion, or board of organlza dealers H„n „ real . e,t *te might be viewed with . atlon It might be regarded 'UBplclon ganization to boost urice. ° r ": estate and building site. i rea J not be, and must no. u 11 need organization. ri Ut it Uo.VfJ 1 t n wdi'lc'h'the priobf a W.a^^-g-'Sand' fcr oviS sr?£i in\ olved cannot be Keneral Such f ans must fit the individual fit liis income, his prospects nnri even his temperament 1 V nd> We Will get further and fast er If there is organization and co-operation between all who a"e materially interested in the hous ing question. Is it not slgnVfl f ?hi savln s of the peo ple of this community, deposited and in bonds, total more than J20.000.000? As much more might be regarded us local capital seeking investment. The bosii for credit is here. There must he organization and intelligent di rection to make this credit avail able for its most useful purpose, that of building homes for the people of the community. Not every man and woman who wants a home of his or her* own is a financier. Moat of such very desirable persons are anxious to be advised. With sound advice what appears to be a maze of finance is u plain path or ordi nary economy and the use of credit. Credit, unused, is a waste. What is true of Johnstown is true also of Harrisburg. But the local commltteo of the Chamber of Com merce can go farther than merely to act as a clearing house for opinion on the housing situation. It ought to originate as well as discuss. It ought to < lay the foundations this year for a general housing scheme to be enpeted at the earliest possible moment, prices of materials and labor being one of the chief consider ations for the reason that the return on any housing investment must necessarily be low and the Invest ment must be made as moderate as possible with good results in order the renters and buyers may hive the advantage of low costs. It would be a great thing for Harrisburg abroad as well as at home If the new committee of ths Cham ber could work out a'plan here that would tie a model for ofher cities, Just as fltfir 1902 public Improvement scheme became known far and wide as the "Harrisburg Plan" 'and was adopted by scores of communities desiring to lift tbemselyea out of the mud. This blight not to be impos sible," Mr. McFarland, chairman of thb'neV., committee, 1$ admittedly o ne of the housing authorities ,;flf the country.- He specialized on tbe sub ject yvhei) few peoplS iwere giving it any eonslderitioh. Hi is welt fitted by exjfprlencci and abljity to/tU> a big Job to a big way and he has am his I feliaw.ivnrkara. able financiers and practical faulldot*. The committee la a strong committee and Harrisburg will expect,great thlnga of It, for housing, la our next big problem and it must be aolved If the city Is to grow and our poople be contented and prosperous. ' —aa fotitic*l* "PtKnsuCoaii&k By the Kx-Committeeman The vigorous manner in which the applications for liquor licenses are being attacked in a number of the counties of Pennsylvania right In the face of the strong probability of the ratiAcation of the Prohibition amendment ip one of the most in teresting conditions now observable in the state. While the proposed new charter for Philadelphia contains the germ of the disturbing elment in the legislative session which will begin in earnesfin a week or so, there has always been a possibility that the liquor question would be injected into the 1919 session just as in years gone by. It is very evident that the people who have been combating the liquor lnAuence in politics do not intend to allow any legislative considerations to interfere with their efTorts in the license courts. In Allegheny county alone remonstrances have been pre pared against 200 llcenseholders aiyi in other counties similar moves are under way. • —ln view of the attention being given in political circles in Pennsyl vania to the make-up of the com mittees of the legislature Just now there is mych lnterst in a speech made in Philadelphia by ex-Repre sentative Fletcher W. Stites, of Mont gomery coiAity. The Public Ledger quotes Mr. Stites this way; "What one is most impressed with when sitting at Harrisburg is the fact that the average intelligence of the mem bers of the House appears to be rather lower than one would expect who knows the intellectual majesty of Pennsylvania and the wonderful opportunity for service in a body o( that kind. But don't imagine the Legislature is made up entirely ot 'lunkheads;' it is dominated by Af teen or twenty men whose ability would be remarked in any body of men." Mr. Stites characterized the Speaker of the House of Representa tives as the "Czar" of the State. Mr. Stites succeeded ex-Speaker Charles A. Ambler as member of the House from Montgomery and was spokesman in the session of 1917 for the faction which dominated the House in the session of 1916 when Mr. Ambler was speaker, or "czar" as he phrased it. Last year he un dertook to contest the Montgomery- Bucks Republican congressional nomination with Congressman Wat son instead of running again for the House as friends wanted him to and was defeated along with other state administration candidates. —From what state newspapers say there will be an attendance of dele gations from the counties at the in auguration of Governor-elect William C. Sproul far beyond anything known in years. For the first time in quite a while men up the state have been encouraged to send delegations. Four years ago there were some moves to have various counties represented in the parade, but the Philadelphia contingent wanted to make a big showing and men who had broached the subject got tired and dropped the projects. There will be more inauguration clubs here next week than known In twenty years. —An Interesting stir is under way in Carbon county because the sheriff is protesting to the county commis sioners that they allow him six cents per,day less for the mainte nance of prisoners than the county pays the eastern penitentiary. The sheriff wants to bo put an the same basis and suggested that the county should either advance the rate to him or else arrange to have more prisoners kept in the county prison. -°" e , of Interesting items of speculation about the Capitol now is what the State Commission of Agri culture is going to find out when it gets here next week. Governor Brumbaugh has urged that the com- Til! ? f .t n P° wer °r abolished. The belief is that the new Governor will abolish it rather than go through the experiments of tho last three years. Roosevelt's Favorite Verse r. Th ? f " vorite Poems of Colonel Rooset eit were those expressing vig orous action and enthusiasm. It is quite natural that he found much to admire In Brownings Saul that shows such a fine sympathy for the heroic and hatred of the base. Dr William A. Webb of Randolph-Ma con College is authority for the statement that it was one of the Colonel's favorites. "He was,"" Doctor Webb says, "es pecially fond of these lines: Oh, our manhood's prime vigor! No • spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in Its play ing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild Joy of living! the leap ing from rock to rock, The strong rending of bows from the fir tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in the pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is crouched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yel lowed over with gold dust di vine, And the ttocust flesh steeped In the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the, sleep in the dried > river channel where the bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere liv ing! how tit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in Joy!" Anther poem, often quoted as Colonel Roosevelt's favorite is "Op portunity," written by John J. In galis. It reads: Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love and fortune on my foot steps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I pene trate * , Deserts and seas remote and passing by Hovel and mart and palace—soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! * If sleeping, wake—if feasting, rise before I turn away. It Is the hour of fate And they who follow me .reach every state Mortals desire and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt and hesitate woe. Condemned to failure, penury and See me in vain and uselessly | m . plore, X answer not. and I return no morel HAHJRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH; OH, MAN! -r .... ByBRIGGS - ~ * DJ£SR ChRiS ••• "Do You ArstD That DAY I HOuEO ~ AnO That lOvelv Day maiv\eivvßEß THC J>AY I AN APPROACH -SHOT OF ABOUT IN Juno WHCN I MADB THS LON€ IBTM 3O YARDS ON THG. IOT m x SUN* A £€ POOT N PAR Five ? \ PUTT AND BSAT • \ You ■ANP The Day I DropPE D ANP T h E w-UL' / The Ball. PEaD on The Pay i wom t 1 — well— ToX>aY I <3oT 7th- For a two . T M e CuP? fv\Y B<uu FRom Thee TRADE BRIFES The American Consul at Punta Arenas, Chile, reports that there is a large local production of tallow in his district and that catalogues are desired of machinery for making candles. The enormous coal and iron beds in Spitzbergen belonging to the British Company, the Norther Ex- j ploration Company, Ltd.; have been investigated by experts, who declare that the iron ore beds are without exception the largest in Europe. A new natural gas field, assuring a further supply of natural gas for Alberta, Canada, has been discover ed about thirty miles east of the city of Lethbridge. Estimates place the production of wine in Greece for the year just ended at 400,000 hectoliters, or 10,- 566,800 gallons. This ig nearly dou ble the estimated production of 1917 which was placed at 5,962,000 gal lons. One of the great drawbacks to the establishment of American banks in Portugal has been removed by a recent Government decree. Under its terms foreign banks doing busi ness in the republic will be assessed the Industrial tax on the amount of capital. The Bureau of Foreign and Do mestic Commerce is in receipt of a letter front the Avon Park Board of Trade, Avon Park, Fla., to the effect that it desires to purchase a moving picture machine adaptable also for colored slides. A" firm in Leicester, England, which before the war was ertgaffed in importing typewriters and se ling and repairing them, mow proposes to manufacture them. Another firm in the same town which, formerly made vulcanite pressings for mag-1 netos will now make fountain pens, which were imported from the Unit ed States before the war. Slam's btidget estimates 'for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1919, provides for an expenditure of sl,- 992,265 for further work on the con struction. of the Southern Railway main line and $22,200 on branch lines, While for the Northern Rail way the sum $842,605 is alloted. The continued extensop of the Irrigation project calls „fdr an' outlay of sl,- 108,3.35 during the year. An import and export house in the Federated Malay states desires to re ceive quotations on all lines of chem icals and* other supplies pertaining to the match manufacturing Indus try. •. • >■. Chauneey D. Snow, .assistant chief ! of the Bureau of Foreign and Demes ne Commerce. Department of Com merce,'hus resigned his position tem porarily to accept an appointment, as special trade commissioner jvith, the same bureau' to study reconstruc tion and commercial problems in Eu rope dtiring this A WELL-POINTED JEST [Baltimore • American] < • • Mr. Wilson's readiness for repartee upon occasion has never found bet ter point than in his resoonse to the Italian Foreign Minister qt Home. The latter was arguing. Mr. Wilson stud in the course of a speech deliv ered at Turin, for certain Austrian territory upon the ground of the Italian inhabitants. The response made by, the President of the United States was: "I am sorry we cannot give you New York, Baron." The reply had Its point In the fact brought out by the King of Italy in conversation with Mr. Wil son, that the American metropolis contains 800,000 Italians. Thus, by a jest, the man to whom the Italians look with confidence In his justice toward their clal us, pointel out the absurdity of any claims based solely upon the fact of nationals being found within alien territorial limits. Mr. Wilson will not be carried, off his feet by the claim anU pleas of one and another of the parties to the big redistribution of territyr'uj and the incident quoted by himself is in dication of the fact that he is giving delicate notice that claims will need to be sounder than advanced by Minster Sonuini with respect to the particular territories out sido of tho bounds of Itu'y'j n.storic and legitimate tiaims. LABOR NOTES Efforts are being made to revive the brcom-making Industry on ithe farms. Bridgeport (Conn.) machine work ers have been granted the right to or ganize. Metal workers' wages increased ilx ty-nine per cent, in Berlin during the past year. ' Olive pickers In California havo been receiving from <2 to 45 per'day. Books and Magazines Sheila Kaye-Smith, whose new novel, "The Challenge to Sirius," E. P. Dutton & Co., have for early pub lication, is an English woman whose several previous hooks have won her an important place among Eng lish authors. She wrote a few years ago a critical biography of John Galsworthy for the "Walters of To day" series and she is the author of several novels, among them "The Three Furlongers," "Sussex Uorsc," and "The lele of .Thorns." "What America Did," is to he the title of Mrs. Elorence Finch Kelly's book recounting the achievements of the United States in the prosecution of the war which E. P. Dutton & Company will publish a little later in the season. It will be a compact volume condensing into brief space an account of the making ready of the fighting forces and of the organ ised effort of the nation to put Itself powerfully and efficiently behind them. .The author has been delayed in the completion of the work by the necessity of rewriting, after the signing of the armistice, of all that had been previously finished in order to make it Cover the entire period of America's participation in the war. Richardson Wright, writing in the New York Times Rook Review of Siegfried Sasson, Robert Nichols and Robert Graves, calls them "the Three Musketeers of English verse" because of . the friendship which exists between them. They are all young men, Bassoon, who is twenty nine, being the oldest of the "in teresting trio," all of whom have fought and been wounded in the war. "They represent," he says, "the new age in English verse; that is. they express in poetry the atti tude of the young men in the war. It would be absurd," he continues, "to say that they represent a school, for, although the closest of friends, each expresses a different view point." Sassoon's viewpoint and striking poetic ability are well known to American readers through his "The Old Huntsmun and Other Poems," published by E. P. Dutton & Co. last year. Mr. Wright de scribes him as "a tall, handsome lad who Is a veteran of two campaigns in France and one in Palestine, holds the War Cross and has ap Our Ad Writers Poets Maria Moravsky, writing in the Bookmun, propounds the original idea that our ad writers are none other than poets. After much praise of the fairness of the 'American newspaper, she goes on to say: "But the best thing about them is the advertisements. They are simply magnificent! They are full of wit, even poetry; they read like fiction. We never had anything like that in Russia. 'Full moon to-night,' I read a poetical beginning of an advertisement. 1 thought It was the first line of a poem. But when I continued, it urged me to buy a \farm plaid, because the full moon evenings of autumn are chilly. "It is often like that with your advertisements; they begin with the most unearthly and poetical things; love and the nightingale—roses and 'the skin you love to touch.' And they end with woolen underwear and soap. I suspect tali your publicity agents are recruited from the crowd of unsuccessful poets." The exemption board, if we re member correctly, was in accord with this idea whtn it proposed to exempt ad writers, poets and rivet ers. THE ROOSEVELT CREED Virtue by itself is not enough, or anything like enough. Strength must be added to it, and the deter mination to use that strength. The good man who is ineffective Is not able to make his goodness of much account to the people as a whole. No matter how much, a man hears the word, small is the credit attach ed to him if he falls to be a door, also; and in serving the Lord „he must remember that he needs avoid sloth in his business as well as culti vate fervency of spirit.—From an address by Theodore Roosevelt. JOY IS COMING Home Is lookin' mighty .bright— Joy is comin'l More of love and more of light— Joy is comln'! Wjiitln' for that holiday; Joy to come and Joy to slay. Home has one glad word to say: .•"Joy. Is comln'['.\ .. —r-From the Atlanta, Constitution. m ■ enviable record for valor." Mase field has called these three young poets "The morning stars of Eng lish poetry" and Richardson Wright goes on to say of them that "all three bear the marks of the new old age which Is characterizing so many young Englishmen to-day. It is," he says, "a sudden maturity, a quick perception of things hereto fore hidden and a willingness to laugh at, even to destroy, the tradi tional age which has been holding the whip-band in England for gen erations." C. L. Carlsen, who put the knowl edge he had gained by several years residence In the Philippines to in teresting use In his story of "The Taming of Kalinga," two years ago, has written another novel of life among the Filipinos, under the title "The Son of Plo," which E. P. Dut ton & Co,, are preparing for early, publication. One of the most fascinating books that the war produced was Francis Brett Young's "Marching on Tan ga," In which he told in vivid lan guage, and with much of the sensi bility of the poet to beauties of na ture and of the novelist to human drapia, how Genoral Smuts drove the Germans out of East Atrica. NQW Joe has written a novel scened in that same country and dealing with a tragic bit of human history bound up with the German occupation, German methods and the coming of tho war. It is called "The Crescent Moon" and E. P. Dutton & Co., will publish it within a week or two. An American edition of V. Blasco Thanez's novel, "The Shadow of the Cathedral," is being prepared for on early publication by E. P. Dutton & Co., who brought out an edition of the book imported from England several years ago. It will have an introduction by William Dean How ells, who is a warm admirer of tho Spanish novelist's work. When tho novel was published In Spain It aroused hot Indignation of the aristocracy and other privileged classes because of its liberal spirit, for Ibanez shows that the two chief causes of the backwardness of Spain are Its parasitic arlßtocracy and the dominating Influence of the church. The story is rich nnd varied in its depiction of Spanish life. State Agricultural Notes Twenty-five tractors and tractor cultivators are to be on display at the State Farm Products Show at Harrlsburg, January 21 to 24. * It is estimated that 45,600 acres were devoted to tobacco culture in Pennsylvania during the past sea son. Pennsylvania has regained Its rank as the leading buckwheat pro ducing state, an advantage lost to New York in 1917. i . Pennsylvania ranks tenth in the value of all its crops during the 1918 season, a jump from fourteenth place In 1917. Pennsylvania ranks eighth In the production of winter wheat, Nebras ka Jumping Into seventh place with a bumper crop during the past sea son.' Only five states, Virginia. North Carolina. Ohio, Wisconsin and Ken tucky rank ahead of Pennsylvania as tobacco producing states. PLAY No sfhgle item of news that has been received from Russia paints so vividly the picture of national dis integration as the announcement in a letter Just received from a Y. M. C. A. worker in that country that Russian children have forgotten how to play. "These children," writes this woman, "have seen so much of sorrow that they have forgotten ihey are children.' Tho Instinct of play In children, puppies, kittens and all oth'er young creaturrfs Is so strong that It overcomes hunger and cold and misery. It Is the antidote for every 111 of life. It is the great and universal symbol of th,e survival of life itself. If the children of Russia have forgotten how to play, they have forgotten how to live. The piteous state of the chtldren of Rus sia is the gravest revelation of the tensity of the crisis that has para lysed the life of the country under the destructive regime of the Bol shevlkl.—New -York Mall. JANUARY 16, 1919. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Sir: As such a vast .number of people are dying of tuberculosis, X wish to offer a few observations, not on the cure, but on the prevention of the disease. The writer has no objection to the segregation of tubercular cases in sanatoriums, where they have the most nutritious food and pure mountain air. This is the best that can be done with the adult. It is my contention, that instead of beginning with the adult we begin with the child. It seems to be a-law of nature, that in many cases the mother transmits to the child the conformation of its chest. If the child is born of a tubercular mother, and has a narrow contracted chest, it is at once predisposed to tubercu losis. ' . The plan I suggest, is to have all such children trained in lung in flation.'until the wall of the chest is torced out to a normal condition. The .-bones of the chest in .chil dren, being quite soft, this expan sion should be accomplished with very little trouble. Train the child to clasp its hands on the top of its head, and with its chin elevated,- to breathe as deeply as possible. Tears ago in advising some college girls concerning their health, I gaye them the following lines in a verse: • Clasp tight your hands above your head, Then march around with stately tread, y Lift up your chin and take deep breath, (And fortify yourself with health. • If the expansion of the chest is not effected in early life, the op portunity is lost forever, as the bones soon harden, making it im possible in after years. In traveling over the plateaus of Arizona at an altitude of six thou sand feet, I found people who had been cured of tuberculosis, but they were held there as prisoners. If they went down toward the coast their trouble returned. Their nar row chests invited the disease to return. At sea level people are said to use only about three-fourths of their lungs In respiration, but at an altitude of six thousand feet, the air is so rarefied that every air cell is called into action, and this ex tra and continuous exercise -ngthens the lungs and causes them to throw off tuoerculosis. 1 saw a man from Kansas, whose chest I examined, and found his left lung, had entirely disappeared. He was living on one lung, and was strong and well, and doing the work of a carpenter every day. Now let us apply these principles to the child. As the attenuated air of the mountains compels deep chest inspiration, so let us compel the child to breathe deeply. In this class of cases we will take nature for our teadher. If the soft semi-cartilaginous bones or ribs of the child are slow ly and carefully forced to expand iptil the conformation of the chest Is normal, we relieve him of the distressing condition in which he was born, and make it possible and probable that he will escapo the wretched death of tuberculosis. In this ptnte we have no six thousand feet of altitude, and with our sanatoriums at less than half elevation, I have wondered whether the tubercular patients, after hav ing spent a term at the sanatorium, will, not relapse Into their former condition when they return to the lower level where they formerly lived. ' DR. J. D. McKEEHAN. Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 10, 1919. Manners in 1855 Some people affect to think that nice table manners are of recent in vention, and that our grandfathers were unacquainted with dainty con duct. To show such people how wrong they are allow us to quote from a treasured work, "Inqulro Within, or 3,700 Facts for the Peo ple." published in Philadelphia In 1855. "If possible, the' knife should never be put In the mouth 'at all; be turned outward. "The teeth should be picked as tit tle as poslble, and never with the fork. "Carefully abstain from blowing the nose, rinsing the mouth or spit ting while at table. "When napkins are provided, they are to be unfolded and laid on the knees. Use the napkin to wipe the mouth or the fingers; never as a handkerchief, or to mop the brow." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. fcmting OMfat Major V. G. Murdock, the Stat* chief draft officer, who has for yea Interested himself In compilation i the local history of the Susqu hanna valley and has written extei sively about the history of his on county of Northumberland wll which his forefathers were long ldei tified, is urging the various loc boards to make their* historic sketches of the draft as corriplete i possible. "Members of the. boar may think that their accounts what was done, of humorous ai similar Instances and contempora newspaper articles and photograph have ho historical valtje, but th will," said the major in talking abo the work to-day. "Had such ac< lection been mude at the time of tl Civil War draft imagino how lnte esting they would be to us no' Some of the best articles I have r ceived have been in plain, commo every day English, but they tell story that will be most interest!! not only next year when the bo are home, but in years to com Chronicles written at the time w be matters of pride to the resider of the districts in the future. Sod of the boards have sent me nevt paper clippings pasted on their 1 tor-heads which will furnish da for historians of the future and she how loyally the newspapers so ported the draft service. The phot graphs and newspaper pictures w be of the utmost value. This is work in which the War Departme is greatly interested and I hope th our state will make as good a sho 1 lng in its record of the draft as it d in furnishing men when the natl called." • • • The district appeal board wht met at the State Capitol, official known us district appeal board No, for the middle district,' was the fli district board to file its complete i p ° rt an(l with it was a histo which contains numerous lncidei and sketches in the experience of t board. This board, which handl many agricultural claims, wc through some unusual experienc Robert R. Free, a former Harrisbu newspaperman, was clerk to t board and his training enabled h to get together and to write a chrc icle of draft work which will be the highest value to some Cent I ennsylvania historian in years come. Major Murdock, in commer lng this board's history, said that had met the calls upon It in an < cellent manner. All told it act upon 35.025 claims. Just what t means is that in the counties Adams, Center, Columbia, Cumb land, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulti Huntingdon. Juniata. Lebanon, M flin, Montour, Northumberlai Perry, Snyder, Union and Yc there were steps taken to relei from the draft a total approximati hair the population of Harrisbu The board was composed of Da it' c ' ty ' 118 chairmi Howard E. Butz, of Huntingdon, 1 state fire marshal; Henry Y Snyd of Lebanon; Dr. John A. Shower: Lebanon; Thomas W. Smallwood, Paxtang; Howard M. Bingaman, this city, and Dr. H. H. Longed* of York. Under the fourth reglst ,! lon * thl board had to act 13,656 appeals or claims, of wh 9,668 of an industrial or agric tural character were granted. 1 district had probably more appe because of agriculture than t other in the state. Under the f registration thero wero over 13 i for Industrial or agricultural r w^'ana^f 15 ; th ° latter ' a PP™xlma ly 5,000 being refused. Under second and third registrations th were 2,600 of industrial or agric tural claims, over 1,000 being deni • • * Thus far district board No. 2 * Harrisburg local boards Nos 2 i 3 are the only ones to file compl histories of their work and of way the draft worked out. The w is under way in the first Harrisb and in the three Dauphin cou districts. Cumberland and Perry < tricts will file their histories shor • • • According to a summary of ports on draft registration In Pe sylvania the grand total of the n of the Keystone State registered the call for September 12 was 6: 496. This Is the net report of c rections of reports and late regisl tlons. All of these men were tween 37 and 45. Of the regisl tlon, says Major Murdock, 668 were whites and 11,684 colored. * average number of registrants each of the 281 local board dlstr of the state has been calculated 7,367. The average for Phlladelt board districts is given as 8,863 for Pittsburgh 7,778. • • • In connection with the htston the draft Major Murdock says om the interesting accounts he recel was from Robert W. Smith, se< tary of Blair county board No. 1. is an extract from a speech he m to drafted men. Part of it is follows: "Let us recall the ol story of the first drafted man earth. Gideon was the commai of the Israelites. He had an a of 32,000 men at his back sought to draft out of that a only the strongest and best wari to fight the enemy. He thereu constituted himself the first selei service board in the history of world. His first draft order that all his soldiers, who had pendents, or wqre slackers, or were afraid and wanted to go h< may go. Thereuporf, 22.000 Ist ites deserted the colors pnd * home, leaving 10,000 comrades hind to fight the battle. The < mander then proceeded to sepa the physically disqualified from army. So this novel test of ■ciency was applied. The 10,000 diers were marched doyyn t< stream and commanded to di Ninety seten hundred soldiers down on all fours to drink, the proving that they were physically fit, lacking both the agility and lllty to wage successful cm against the foe. But the three dred remaining soldiers were eager for the coming fray, so against any possible surprise a of the enemy, that they disdain* stoop and kneel. They stood Each one scooped up the water li palms of his hands, and drank. 1 brisk, energetic men. swift of and steady of purpose, were the diers chosen In the selective se of the long, long ago.. Better hundred picked men, than t doubtful fighters fdr Gideon's a Holy Writ tells us, that these dr men were entrusted with the s of the Lord and of Gideon, achieved a glorious victory.' American nation enters the e war, for the sake of Justice, i eousness and humanity. Bhe Is lng her sons to rally around banner, as modern Gideons freedom and equality and 'it may not perish from tlto **h
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